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Upcoming Events in October

October 3-5, Wednesday - Friday Ateneo SALT Institute International Conference on Educational Frontiers 8:00 - 4:30 PM

In an age of greater access to information and innovation, how is education going to respond? The Ateneo SALT Institute, with the Asia Pacific Interactive- Jesuit Education Consortium, is organizing the International Conference on Educational Frontiers from October 3 to 5, at the Areté, Ateneo de Manila University. It aims to bring together educators, researchers, and administrators to talk about new frontiers, challenges and opportunities in education.

It features plenary talks from Gino Borromeo of the McCann Worldgroup, who will speak about the youth of today, and Dr. Christine Halse of the Education University of Hong Kong, who will speak about intercultural education's role in promoting social justice. It also has Andrew Miller of the Shanghai American School who will give the Rex Project-based Learning Masterclass.

The procedures to join the conference are found on this link: https://www.educfrontiers.com/attend.html

October 17, Wednesday Ateneo Art Gallery ArtSpeak: Ateneo Art Awards 2018 3:00 PM 

Sit down with some of the shortlisted artists of the Ateneo Art Awards 2018 - Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art as they talk about their practice and respective works in the Ateneo Art Awards 2018 exhibit. Stay tuned for announcements on https://www.facebook.com/ateneoartgallery/.

October 20, Saturday Ateneo Art Gallery Charcoal Drawing Workshop with Ronson Culibrina 2:00 - 5:00 PM

Learn charcoal drawing in this free class with Ateneo Art Awards 2018 winner Ronson Culibrina! Stay tuned for announcements on https://www.facebook.com/ateneoartgallery/. 

October 30, Tuesday Office of the Dean of the School of Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies Piano Duets and Sarswela Songs 5:30 - 7:00 PM

On October 30, 2018, at 5:30-7:00 p.m., the Office of the Dean of the School of Humanities and the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Ateneo de Manila University, in cooperation with Arete, present "Piano Duets and Sarswela Songs" at the Doreen Blackbox at Arete.

The Doreen Blackbox is named after the late Doreen Gamboa Fernandez, who for over thirty years taught at the Ateneo de Manila University. Her sister was the late concert pianist Della Gamboa Besa.

In 2012, Mrs. Besa performed piano duets with Ana Marie de Guzman at a concert at the Ateneo in commemoration of her sister's tenth death anniversary. The concert and an exhibition of Dr. Fernandez's memorabilia and papers were organized by the Ateneo Library of Women's Writings and the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, which Dr. Fernandez once headed. During that affair, Mrs. Besa revealed that she used to perform duets at recitals with her sister at St. Scholastica's College before she (Doreen) went on to take further studies in literature. 

The concert "Piano Duets and Sarswela Songs" is a way for the university to formalize the establishment of the blackbox, to commemorate the woman after whom it is named, and to thank the donor who underwrote its construction. It is also a way of resurrecting the moment when the sisters Doreen and Della were partners on stage. 

Performing works from Mrs. Besa's repertoire are pianists Mary Anne Espina and Grace Garcia, both of whom studied with Mrs. Besa. Soprano Nenen Espina sings songs from the sarswela, a Philippine dramatic form--the Spanish zarzuela indigenized--which Dr. Fernandez studied in the 1970s and 80s.

Admission to the concert is free of charge, but because seats are limited, interested parties are requested to notify the organizers by registering through https://goo.gl/forms/XzpXc2sAPxJRxqRr2 or by calling 4266001 loc. 5340.

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SBC4

One relevant question raised and prompted much discussion in the last Sandbox Conversation on the future of Philippine education was that of the implications of automation on an education system premised on supplying human labor to the workforce.

Automation changes employment demands, as it has constantly done so over the centuries. This conversation explores the future of labor in light of today’s rapid technological advancement in the areas of automation and artificial intelligence, as well as the ethics of these advancements. Some visions are utopic – people no longer have to work like machines. Others are not – what about the people who are perpetually displaced by these advancements?

The conversation, prompted by the project of Reese Fernandez-Ruiz (Rags to Riches), saw insights from Chiara Ledesma (Computer Science student), Francis Bautista (Indigo Research), Luis Abad (Economics Department), Didith Rodrigo (Ateneo Laboratory for Learning Science), Peachy Pacquing (researcher on the future), Cecille Villena (Plan International), Paolo Agloro (Department of Information Systems and Computer Science), Ralph Regalado (Senti), and Enzo Bautista (Exora). It concluded with intentions to connect the participants and prompt a possible collaborative project between them.

Anybody interested in opportunities for projects and collaborations, participation in future Conversations under the Sandbox Programs may contact us at arete.sandbox@gmail.com.

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Rags2Riches

Sandbox Conversation (SBC) 3 on the future of Philippine education ended with questions about industries sustained by labor at a time of developing automation. This serves as the starting point for SBC4, which aims to discuss the implications of automation, artificial intelligence and the future of labor across various disciplines.

This conversation is also prompted by social enterprise of Ateneo alumna Reese Fernandez-Ruiz, President and Founding Partner of Rags2Riches, Inc. Ms. Fernandez-Ruiz/R2R has recently been granted a Sandbox Residency as an alumni group, with the hopes that the Sandbox programs can provide them with new tools and perspectives that will bring about improvements to the methods of community engagements foundational to their business model.  

With SBC4 and Areté’s provision of resources, time, space and collaborative opportunities, this partnership with R2R may witness the generation of new ways to reimagine the methods of community engagement and social development in ways that address the needs and concerns of changing times for labor and entrepreneurship.

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Birds and Trees

The Ateneo Institute of Sustainability, in partnership with the Wild Bird Club of the Philippines, has been organizing bird walks on campus for several years now, and this activity has become the starting point of Birds and Trees, a project that was recently granted a Sandbox Residency earlier this year. One such bird walk was held last August 17th, Friday. Faculty members and some administrators participated in the walk, which also saw the testing of prototype materials developed using Areté’s resources in order to improve the participants’ birding experience.

Birds and Trees, led by Abigail Favis (Department of Environmental Science) and Trinket Constantino (Department of Biology), endeavors to involve the community in order to achieve campus sustainability goals. The initial objective of the project is to equip the general population with skills to identify and document bird and plant life on campus such that the crowd sourced data can inform strategies for sustainability.

Areté, through the Residency, then provides resources and opportunities for collaboration in order to come up with new modes of visualizing and strategizing towards campus sustainability.

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EJK YA

Empathy is the noblest thing, or so it seems to be. But what does it mean, and what comes after? Last August 18th, the Sandbox School held the Improv-ing Empathy workshop. A group of strangers gathered together at Joseph and Gemma Tanbuntiong Studio to play, listen, and retell each other’s stories in a four-hour intensive improvisation-acting workshop by Missy Maramara (Department of Fine Arts). The workshop activities drive home the manner in which emotions, like memory, when shared, becomes both a validating and driving force for action.

Participants of the workshop included Cyan Abad-Jugo and Jocelyn Martin (Department of English), along with their students who are part of the project that they lead, EJK YA. This project aims to publish an anthology of young adult literature that responds to extra-judicial killings, and it has recently been granted a Sandbox Residency. It not only provides a novel approach to manuscript development, as the students participating have little to no creative writing training, but it also provides these young people an avenue to respond through writing to the ongoing issues of EJK’s and the systems of violence and corruption connected to it.

Besides slots for the said improvisation-acting workshop, Areté will also provide a Sandbox Conversation prompted by the project, as well as a Sandbox Writing Residency grant and an exhibit and forum on the project and its process. It will be interesting to see what voices can be heard from such an approach to issues of violence and what can arise out of empathic engagements from young adults to the rest of Philippine society.

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Ateneo Art Gallery Updates for April - May

EVENTS, TRAINING, AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS:

AAG Volunteer Program – AAG is currently revitalizing its volunteer training program by partnering with iVolunteer, a non-profit volunteer recruitment organization, to pool individuals interested to contribute their time at the museum. Kickstarting last April with a total of 25 volunteers -  a mix of students and professionals, the program aims to provide behind-the-scene experience on how a museum operates by training them on the basics of tour guiding and collection management.

Kidlat Revisited – Fans of Kidlat Tahimik are in for a treat as AAG hosts free screenings of his films from May to June at the Ben Chan ArtSuite. Before entering the museum, visitors can view up close Kidlat’s Art Fair Philippines 2018 installation, “WW3: The Protracted Kultur War” at the Unionbank Plaza, Areté.

Lost Frames XIII: Screening + Talk – In celebration of International Museum Day on May 18, AAG invited Lost Frames, a community-based initiative for viewing artists’ moving images in the country, to discuss about contextualization of moving images in their varied forms, the social space they occupy with viewers, and how these untangle a web of transactions and power dynamics in their production and presentation. This talk is for free for all visitors at the Ben Chan ArtSuite.

Frame by Frame: An Introduction to Stop Motion Animation with the Alcazaren Brothers – Led by Juan and Miguel Alcazaren, this two-day workshop introduces the art of stop-motion animation in three modules, all involving hands-on work. This activity was made possible with the support of Jollibee.

Printmaking Workshop – Learn about printmaking techniques with the Association of Pinoy Printmakers from May 25-27. Slots are still available for the following classes - monograph and collograph technique, rubbercut printmaking and drypoint technique. Interested participants may register by visiting the link: http://bit.ly/AAG-APWorkshops

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS AND ENTRIES

Ateneo Art Awards 2018 – The call for nominations and entries are ongoing for the Ateneo Art Awards – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art and Ateneo Art Awards – Purita Kalaw – Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism, respectively. Deadline of submissions is on May 31, 2018.

The Ateneo Art Awards commemorates the founding benefactor of the gallery - Fernando Zóbel and Art Association of the Philippines founder and art patron, Purita Kalaw – Ledesma.

To view the guidelines for the two prizes, visit www.ateneoartgallery.org.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

Love It and Leave It: A Legacy of Gifts to The Ateneo Art Gallery – The exhibit showcases the gallery’s permanent collection and will run for a year until January 19, 2019 at the Mr & Mrs Chung Te Gallery, Mr & Mrs Ching Tan Gallery, and Ernesto and Susan Tanmantiong Gallery. Expect to see new artworks on display as the gallery switches some of its pieces to highlight more donors who contributed to the expansion of the collection since 1960.

Elmer Borlongan Draws The Line – Located at the Wilson L Sy Prints and Drawings Gallery, this retrospective show of Elmer Borlongan’s works on paper is extended to run until June 17, 2018.

The 70s: Objects, Photographs, and Documents – An exhibit on the beginnings of conceptual art practice in the Philippines, The 70s: Objects, Photographs, and Documents features experimental photography and recreated works by artists like Roberto Chabet, Ray Albano, Red Mansueto and many more. Catch this exhibit at the Ambeth R Ocampo Gallery, Alicia P Lorenzo Gallery, and Elizabeth Gokongwei Gallery until July 13, 2018.

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SALT Institute Updates for April - May

In the past two months, the SALT Institute has worked on different trainings, both inside the Ateneo de Manila and outside of it. From the 18th to 20th of April, the Institute led the training of 40 teachers and employees of the Ayala Foundation's CENTEX Institute. During the first two weeks of May, the Institute also had different workshops for Filipino public and private school teachers, training them in thinking routines, research teaching, classroom management, and so on. These trainings are part of this year's Turo Guro.

Aside from trainings, the Institute received the benefaction from JJ Atencio, who helped establish a scholarship fund for the education for public school teachers. This is named after his mother, Dra. Rosario Bustos Atencio. The endowment fund will be used to support the education of students aspiring to serve in public schools and the continuing professional development of public school teachers, courtesy of the Ateneo SALT Institute.

After the summer trainings, the Institute is preparing for its internship program from June to July, and its International Conference on Educational Frontiers during the first week of October. To present at the conference, please submit your abstract at www.educfront.com

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Arete hosts ALLS Lecture Series with Dr. Margot Brereton of Queensland University of Technology

Tea kettle + lava lamp + tablet computer + Internet connection = ???

To Dr. Margot Brereton, the aggregation of these elements is a messaging tea kettle: a presidential hotline that connects her home in Australia to that of her mother in England.  When Dr. Brereton makes herself a cup of tea, the lava lamp in her mother’s home glows, and vice-versa. This creates opportunities to write short messages on the tablet, to touch base briefly but often, and to feel each other’s presence on a daily basis, despite being thousands of miles apart.

During her talk on April 5, 2018, Dr. Brereton shared this and other innovations that explore and support networks of relationships between people, places, and objects. Dr. Brereton is a professor of engineering and interaction design and Leader of the Computer Human Interaction Discipline of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.